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"We visualize the music of Bachelorette beaming through distant star systems, gliding and bouncing through a matrix of coolly illuminated neural pathways. Yet, all the songs on her new album were written on Earth: Radley, UK; Tripoli, Libya; Millwood, VA; Brooklyn, NYC and back home in Auckland, NZ. Annabel Alpers (the heart behind Bachelorette's machine) is no sky-bound jet-trash. Her new, self-titled album has a corporeal, sensual tangibility. If you were a fan of the wildly under-heard Isolation Loops and My Electric Family, you will be touched and torched once again by her deep-space solitude and the soulful ache that radiates from her best songs. Annabel Alpers dreams the trappings of her electro psych pop -- her melodies, her minimal lines of synth and harmony vocal -- and then brings the complex shades of this vision into our world through her music. Changing geography doesn't actually change the conditions that we live in. Wherever you go, there you are, right? However, everywhere is somewhere, and all the traveling done in the last year or so of Bachelorette's life has to seep somehow into her rich-toned amalgamation of sounds. When organic waves enter her work -- as cathedral chimes did in Oxford -- they return swathed in a lunar halo."
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"Isolation Loops was first released in 2007 on Mistletone Records. Bachelorette continued to fly over a full spectrum of popular music forms, from girl-group to psychedelic to torch to disco, always with an inventive ear for sounds and a soulbreaking gift for melody. Scored with the chilly sounds of drum machines and keyboards, Bachelorette's music melts the ice of deep space as it taps essences. . . the celestial joy of like and love, the jubilation of selfhood, a wandering spirit, loneliness bordering on the cosmic. There's only one first time to fall in love, but somehow every Bachelorette song is like the first time all over again."
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"Drag City is representing for our crush on Bachelorette with vinyl-only reissues of her first two releases, The End of Things and Isolation Loops, the first time either of these records have appeared in analog form. Despite the clear superiority of the vinyl-based sound, both vinyl releases contain download codes for the listener's digital convenience. The End of Things came from the void in 2005, a mini-LP that walked like an album of all great songs. Here, Bachelorette (aka Annabel Alpers of New Zealand) sketched out her basic design, a bedroom version of hi-tech dance pop with an elastic sense of style under the surface, its scope a vision of emotional landscapes where the intimate can become the infinite in a sudden flash. This new vinyl version features new cover artwork, a complete departure from the original The End of Things design."
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"Bachelorette's music beams to us through a universe of unconquered pop music, where long beams of sunlight extend to infinity, and blue moons rise wistfully in the deep purple expanse. She stands in the cradle of modern songwriting, that of psychedelic pop music. The sense of infinite possibility felt in those songs, the desire to manipulate a collective sensation to become anything at all, informs Bachelorette's journey. The psych vibe shimmers in an acousto-synthetic haze, not really overt, so completely are those long-ago verses absorbed in her DNA. Her impulses are fed into a format that rhymes couplets over dancing beats, voices, keyboards, and a variety of guitars and percussions to create the melodic constructs we know so well, and delight in, and sing along with, and imagine to. Tasty candylike approximations, sweet and sour, billowing and knife-like, here for our pleasure. My Electric Family may be your introduction to New Zealand's Bachelorette -- good for you! She makes great records -- but this is the third Bachelorette record (the EP The End Of Things and the Isolation Loops album) and also the most topically focused. Her song structures are traditionally examinations of love and longing, the exploration of self versus self and in relation to the surrounding, silent universe. The songs of My Electric Family emphasize a particular fascination: the meeting of man and machine. We built them in our image, they're the more perfect us. Now we look to them looking at us. This is another kind of relationship. This is what Bachelorette does to make her sci-folk sounds -- she relates to machines, expressing her feelings in union with their electric/electronic function. This is imagination, soaring and expansive yet rigidly composed -- the firmament as viewed from the ground, an arc in the ageless sky where the light glows for us all. Our universe starts with the dirt, the grass and the trees. As sure as electric impulses pinball through our brain, the true expanse exists to be tapped within."
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